Keyword: Evolution
- contributionMatthew C. Wilson
A Drift
Matthew C. Wilson traverses ancient prehistory to speculative futures, meditating on the chancy throughlines that make up the world as we know it.
Storytelling, Reflection, Engagement, Mapping, Evolution, History, Future, Speculative, Life, Species
- contributionFernando Silva e Silva, Alyne Costa, Jahnavi Phalkey, Lucio De Capitani, Emiliano Guaraldo, Sarah Lewison, Jacob Lindgren, Carlina Rossée, Jamie Allen, Jeremy Bolen, Brian Holmes
Collaborative Practice on a Changing Planet
In the fall of 2022, AC initiatives from around the world came together to envision a transformed future for the long-term collaboration of the network.
Communicating, Consensus Building, Conversation, Engagement, Experiment, Field Work, Mapping, Modeling, Intervention, Future, Consensus, Evolution, Extinction, Complexity, Topography, Knowledge infrastructure, Knowledge production, Local knowledge, Network
- contributionMark Williams, Francine M.G. McCarthy, Alejandro Cearreta, Martin J. Head, Reinhold Leinfelder, Jens Zinke, Anthony D. Barnosky, Kristine L. DeLong
Biological and Paleontological Signatures of the Anthropocene
Lakes, seas, estuaries, and wetlands provide important archives of humanity’s reconfiguration of life in the Anthropocene.
Field Work, Biosphere, Deep time, Extinction, Evolution, History, Scale, Stratigraphy, Future
- Field Noteipgray
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Louisiana, USA
Autonomy, Energy, Evolution, Ocean, Sedimentation
- Field Noteunderhil
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Montegut, Louisiana, USA
Climate change, Evolution, Human-animal relations, Hybrid, Imaginary, Naturecultures, Mythology, Memory
- Field Notes.kanouse
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Storytelling, Intervention, Conversation, Agency, Care, Deep time, Evolution, Life, Resilience, Race, Environmental Justice, Cosmologies, Women, Maternal deep time
- Field Noteslewison
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Natchez, Mississippi, USA
Adaptation, Biodiversity, Climate change, Complexity, Contingency, Degradation, Ecology, Evolution, Landscape, Life, Resilience, Adventitious, Geo-ecologies
- projectLynn Peemoeller
Postnatural Landscapes
Ancient agricultural practices in the American Bottom were significant in the shaping of the landscapes and foodscapes that exist today.
Field Work, Case Study, Landscape, Deep time, History, Anthropology, Agriculture, Evolution, Food
- projectDerek Hoeferlin, Jorg Sieweke, Jelagat Cheruiyot, Aron Chang, Nikiwe Solomon, Tanya James, Cyndhia Ramatchandirane, Greta Gladney, Richard Hindle
Seminar: Un/bounded Engineering and Evolutionary Stability
The role of engineering river systems toward human aims and the consequences this has on multiple scales is the key concern of this seminar.
Case Study, Teaching, Engineering, Evolution, Human-environment relations, Infrastructure, Complexity, Ecology, Disaster, Technoscience, Technosphere, Risk, Sedimentation
- projectAmy Lesen, Catherine Russell, Bruce Sunpie Barnes, Scott Wing
Seminar: Clashing Temporalities
This seminar brings concepts of time, layers, and sediment into close contact with the human sciences, the arts, and Pierre Part, a community who live according to the movements of the River.
Case Study, Teaching, Time, Deep time, Adaptation, Agriculture, Biosphere, Evolution, Metabolism, Human-environment relations, Water, Waste, History, Sedimentation, Erosion
- contributionManfred Laubichler
The Growth and Differentiation of Metabolism: Extended Evolutionary Dynamics in the Technosphere
By going through the transitions in cell evolution and energy regimes, evolutionary biologist Manfred Laubichler explains the dynamics behind the formation of the metabolic activity and complexity of our planet.
Engagement, Mapping, Teaching, Evolution, Energy, History
- contributionMalin Ah-King, Eva Hayward
Toxic Sexes: Perverting Pollution and Queering Hormone Disruption
Gender studies scholars Malin Ah-King and Eva Hayward question the essentialist and heteronormative assumptions that frame discourses on endocrine disruptors.
Intervention, Toxicity, Evolution
- contributionDorion Sagan
Möbius Trip. The Technosphere and Our Science Fiction Reality
In his feverish essay concerning the role of these efficient, yet paltry, energy distribution devices called humans, science writer Dorion Sagan exits the Anthropocene in pursuit of epochs, evolutionary constellations and thermodynamic possibilities beyond consensus models.
Technoscience, Biosphere, Evolution, Time
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Fragments of Thoughts
A collage of thoughts about co-evolutionary perspectives on the technosphere.
Human-environment relations, Complexity, Evolution, Time, Network, Scale, Naturecultures
- contributionMasahiro Terada
The Reed, Slime Mold, and Sprout
From being to becoming: a historical perspective on the dynamics of change.
Reflection, Knowledge transformation, Evolution, Naturecultures
- contributionSimone Schleper
Perspectives and Politics
A look into the emergence of the technosphere concept and its implications for environmental governance.
Reflection, Evolution, Technosphere, Biosphere, History
- contributionDaniel Niles
Sputnik of our Time
Technology can no longer be regarded a tool as it rather presents an integral part of our social world today. An introductory reflection on the seminar by Daniel Niles.
Technoscience, Technosphere, Evolution, Complexity
- projectManfred Laubichler, Daniel Niles, Jürgen Renn, Masahiro Terada, Joyeeta Gupta, Sander van der Leeuw
Seminar: Co-evolutionary Perspectives
How can we think beyond categorical distinctions between humans, culture, technology, and nature?
Human-environment relations, Complexity, Evolution, Time, Network, Scale, Naturecultures
- contributionCaroline Picard
A Circumnutation of Thought
An exercise in entanglement of Caroline Picard
Biosphere, Evolution, Naturecultures
- projectPeter K. Haff, Manfred Laubichler, Armin Reller, Jürgen Renn, Jan Zalasiewicz
Seminar: Co-evolution of the Technosphere
The biosphere has budded off a second global “sphere,” the technosphere, a technology-based system on which humans now depend—and which they find hard to control. Which tools are needed to ensure human survival in the technosphere?
Teaching, Experiment, Technosphere, Evolution, Adaptation, Knowledge transformation, Biosphere
- contributionJohan Gärdebo, Agata Marzecova, Hanna Vikström
Orbital Geopolitics
A conceptualization of the human‒nature‒technology nexus needs to examine the uneven geographies and power geometries of the Anthropocene epoch. Satellites are a case in point.
Sensing, Complexity, Evolution, History, Scale, Waste, Speculative
- contributionEnrico Costanzo, Olivier Hamant
The Anthropocene in Light of Biological Feedback
An essay that explores the concept and implications of feedback, a step that is central to a better understanding of the Anthropocene.
Complexity, Technoscience, Evolution
